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Jean-Claude Juncker has received death threats from Greece

The leader of eurozone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, said he received death threats from Greece, which imposed austerity measures in exchange for a foreign financial aid is very unpopular.

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"What can be told Greeks? Is a good question that I often ask her, because they receive more messages from the Greeks. Including death threats," Juncker revealed during a hearing before a committee of the European Parliament Strasbourg.

Greece, holding a huge debt and unable to refinance its financial markets require too much interest, obtained last year from the Europeans and the International Monetary Fund promised a loan of 110 billion euros over three years in exchange for a plan austerity to try reforming its public finances.

The country seems determined to obtain a further extension, but for a country's control over spending sharply and new budgetary sacrifices.

Sunday, tens of thousands of Greeks took part again at a large but peaceful meeting against austerity measures in the center of Athens.

More general strikes have already taken place and the country's leaders are accused of theft, in particular the significant privatizations demanded by creditors.

"The privatization will be more, the smaller will be sacrifices required of all Greeks," said Juncker. 

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